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Sweet reminders from @the.holistic.psychologist #

Sweet reminders from @the.holistic.psychologist

#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthawarenessmonth #mentalhealthmatters

And a lunar eclipse. Good luck everyone! 🤍

And a lunar eclipse. Good luck everyone! 🤍

Gilles Deleuze // "The problem is no longer gettin

Gilles Deleuze // "The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say... What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing...the thing that might be worth saying."
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Repost from @etherealculture • ARIES NEW MOON /

Repost from @etherealculture
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ARIES NEW MOON / TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE:
A POTENT INITIATION

An Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse arrives on Wednesday, drawing us deeper into the karmic compression of eclipse season. The next two weeks will be powerful and revealing, helping us shed stagnation while encouraging great strides toward our evolution. This eclipse falls at the anoretic degree of Aries, bookending a lunar cycle since two Aries New Moons formed over the past month. This eclipse represents a powerful initiation. It’s igniting a feeling of now or never.

We may feel a sense of urgency to take our next steps. A lot of energy is activated now, so it’s important for us to ground. We are stepping into the future at a fast pace—within ourselves, our relationships, and society at large. This is an extremely important new beginning, and we can prepare accordingly, making our needs and wants abundantly clear.

Moving forward, who do we want to be? What do we want to pursue? How do we want to relate?

With this anaretic Aries eclipse squaring Pluto, this is not a moment for niceties and superficiality, or for glossing over deeper issues. The planets are challenging us to look deeply at the truth and feel embodied in our full power—which includes acknowledging our shadows. Powerful lessons are ready to reveal themselves to us if we can muster our warriorship and see our full spectrum of self—our pain, beauty, mistakes, gifts, hard work, and profundity—while feeling immense love and gratitude. We are ready to graduate into the next iteration of being.

We can pay special attention to whatever unfolds over the next two weeks—themes, karmic run-ins with friends or lovers from the past, significant new people showing up, desires rising to the surface, thoughts, lessons, initiations, and instincts. We are discovering who we are—stepping into new, more evolved identities that are beginning to emerge as the Aquarian age takes root… ✨🤍✨
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Image: @jpierce

Repost from @time • In her final speech to New Z

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In her final speech to New Zealand’s Parliament on Wednesday, Jacinda Ardern described in emotional terms how she’d navigated a pandemic and a mass-shooting during her tumultuous five years as prime minister.

The New Moon rising in Aries today at 10:23am PT m

The New Moon rising in Aries today at 10:23am PT marks the beginning of a new cycle. Whatever you start now will begin to take root over the next six months. By the Full Moon in Aries on September 29, your intentions will be clear and have a life of their own. Now is the time to plant the seeds. #newmoon #newmoonaries2023 #newera #newcycle #newbeginning

Repost from @theinstituteoffemininearts • Equino

Repost from @theinstituteoffemininearts
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Equinoxes are the cosmic representation of balanced Yin and Yang energies. The point in the Earths cycle where we experience an almost equal length of day and night. The natural world deep in her descending journey in the Southern Hemisphere and emerging with new awakened energy & purpose in the Northern Hemisphere.
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In the Southern Hemisphere, we welcome the second harvest festival of Mabon. As we embrace the subtle seasonal change to shorter days and cooler, darker evenings. The energy of nature around us prepares to descend deeper into the slower paced winter months ahead.
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This time in the cycle represents surrender, reflection, gratitude and celebration of the harvest from our physical and metaphorical seeds planted around the Spring Equinox.
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Looking within and without, we create space, clearing out, preserving what's needed and composting the rest. This supports the required balance and fertile base to sustain us throughout the winter months physically, emotionally and mentally.
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For our friends in the Northern Hemisphere the wheel of the year turns to Ostara, Spring Equinox. An exciting time of awakening and emerging, expansive energies. Birth, new life, increasing warmth and the desire to clear out dormant energies. Looking within and without, we create and nurture space for possibility, seeds and intentions to manifest, grow and flourish.
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The coming few days are a wonderful time and opportunity for us to sit in reflection…
 🌙What do you notice in the natural world around you?
🌙What is arising?
🌙What requires composting?
🌙What wants to grow and thrive within me?
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Sending love and Equinox blessings to you all.
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@theinstituteoffemininearts 🌷

#wheeloftheyear #equinox #autumnequinox #springequinox #mabonblessings #ostarablessings #equinoxblessings

Repost from @drmarkhyman • In school, we all lea

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In school, we all learned how to read and write, but we never learned how to use our minds to help us with the most important survival skills of all: staying happy and healthy!

To engage the powerful forces of the mind on the body, you must DO something. Learn how to ACTIVELY relax. ⁣⁣
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Whether you practice deep breathing or take a simple leisurely walk, find an active relaxation that works for you and do it. Here are a few more ideas on how to push your pause button:⁣⁣
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1) Make choices that make your life balanced — practice saying “NO” to others and “YES” to yourself.⁣⁣
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2) Try yoga or meditation.⁣⁣
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3) Get enough sleep.⁣⁣
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4) Eat whole foods that decrease the stress response.⁣

The lit crescent moon with Venus and Jupiter will

The lit crescent moon with Venus and Jupiter will be visible tonight. By early March, they’ll be closest. This outstanding combination comes about every twelve years. All three are visible to the naked eye.

#venus #jupiter #moon #moonlovers

Words repost: @protectivehands Photo: me

#truth Repost from @meghanmahealani ✨

#truth

Repost from @meghanmahealani ✨

This Full Moon is one of the more intense Moons as

This Full Moon is one of the more intense Moons as Leo brings a fiery energy to our hearts and energy. Leo reminds us to be ourselves and show that person to the world with courage and confidence. This Moon is a time to feel who you are and anything that blocks you from being that person. It’s a time to own your power and not be afraid to use it. ⁠
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As the Moon opposes the Sun in Aquarius, it also squares Uranus, the planet of change, in Taurus. This Moon has the potential to shake loose anything that doesn’t resonate with your soul and make space for what does. This square aspect can make you feel unstable or even insecure in parts of your life. There is a much change available right now. Feel into the things that bring you back to center and lean on them as you shift patterns or energies that do not resonate with your heart. ⁠
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We also have all planets moving forward during this Full Moon, making life feel full of motion and life-changing decisions. Ground your energy and let yourself ride these cosmic waves to step away from anything that doesn’t hit a high note with your intuition. Remember, you already have all the answers. All you need to do is breathe deep and remember who you are. ⁠
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#fullmoon #leo #astrology #firesigns #zodiacsigns

Art by @magic_of_i Words by @spiritdaughter

We have been waiting for the tides to turn, and wi

We have been waiting for the tides to turn, and with Mars and Mercury now direct and Uranus about to go direct shortly after this NEW MOON, there is forward momentum enlivening the Earth.

Like the sighting of a rainbow after the rains, the gifts from the storm become clear before our eyes, and the fertile landscape reminds us that dry banks can become flowing streams again.

We have before us the wisdom we’ve gained from experience, and if we were able to learn from our past choices, then we can allow our new understanding to refine us in moving forward.

What magic can we pull out of our hats?

And what mystery might we unravel with the intimacy of the Goddess, the Hare and the Moon?

What may come with all of that fecundity and creativity unleashed and harnessed?

Perhaps the reBirth of our ancient souls, like birds rising across the waters, flowing with the magnetic fields and letting love lift us as we make waves in our collective skies.

May it be so.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Words by @mysticmamma

#happylunarnewyear #newmoon

My kind of medicine. 🌱 Repost from @mercado_sa

My kind of medicine. 🌱

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“Before planting, put into your mouth one or more little seeds, hold them in your mouth, under the tongue, for at least nine minutes.”

“Every seed you plant contains within itself an enormous amount of information about the Universe. Nothing made by human hands can compare with this information either in size or accuracy. Through the help of these data the seed knows the exact time, down to the millisecond, when it is to come alive, grow — what juices it is to take from the Earth, how to make use of the rays of the celestial bodies — the Sun, Moon and stars, what it is to grow into, what fruit to bring forth.

“These fruits are designed to sustain Man's life. More powerfully and effectively than any manufactured drugs of the present or future, these fruits are capable of counteracting and withstanding any disease of the human body.

“But to this end the seed must know about the human condition. So that during the maturation process it can satiate its fruit with the right correlation of substances to heal a specific individual of his disease, if indeed he has it or is prone to it.

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When planting the seedlings, it is important to soften the dirt in the excavated hole with one’s fingers and bare toes, and spit into the hole. Responding to my question,

“Why the feet?”

Anastasia explained that through perspiration from one’s feet come substances containing information about bodily diseases. This information is taken in by the seedlings. They transmit it to the fruit, which will thus be enabled to counteract diseases. Anastasia recommended walking around the plot barefoot from time to time.

— excerpt from Anastasia, The Ringing Cedars Series, Book 1

photographer unknown #theringingcedars #keepersofthefrequency

The new paradigm requires a new way of being. Re

The new paradigm requires a new way of being.

Repost from @elizabeth.april

Which one of these have you been working on lately? ✨
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@wordsarevibrations #heal #innerwisdom #reprogramming #spiritualawakening #elizabethapril #5D

On 12/21/2022 at 3:48 pm CST the Sun enters the ca

On 12/21/2022 at 3:48 pm CST the Sun enters the cardinal earth sign Capricorn taking us into the shortest day/longest night known as the winter solstice and inversely the summer solstice south of the equator. Cardinal signs launch the seasons and with it comes an energy of change, initiation and a new beginning. There is a reassuring quality to the four cross quarter honoring of light, darkness and the stillness in between.

Yet each year brings it’s own unique energy and initiatory signature. This winter solstice is uplifted by the buoyant Jupiter returning to cardinal fire Aries after a retrograde period in later degrees of Pisces.

The moon is her dark balsamic phase brewing up an elixir to heal the heaviness and weariness of a hard year to serve it up with a beautiful last new moon of 2022 on 12/23/2022 as Chiron stations direct.

It is always beneficial to light a fire, candle or sacred flame on the evening of the winter solstice with the questions:

✨What will I release into the dark of the night?

✨How might I merge with the deep mystery within and throughout?

✨What would I like to invite with the coming of morning light?

🌬️How might I bring the power of my spirit into a prayer for the world?

Wishing us a peaceful moment to be held in the grace of the sacred darkness 🔥🖤🌒

Happy Winter Solstice!

Repost from @grandmotherswisdom via @susanlipshutz

As the year comes to an end, and on this winter so

As the year comes to an end, and on this winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and summer solstice in the southern hemisphere, it is a powerful time to set intentions. The first step is to quiet the mind, so that you may hear what your heart desires. Taking 15 minutes today to sit or lay quietly while listening to this meditation on gratitude (made in collaboration with @equinox) is a great entry point to that quieting. Rest + time will allow your heart to reveal itself. Enjoy! 🤍✨

SHAVASANA Once again, the field rehearses how to

SHAVASANA

Once again, the field rehearses how to die.
Some of the grass turns golden first. Some
simply fades into brown. Just this morning,

I, too, lay in corpse pose, practicing
how to let myself be totally held by the earth
without striving, how to meet the day

without rushing off to do the next necessary
or beautiful thing. Soon, the grass will bend
or break, molder or disintegrate. Every year,

the same lesson in how to join
the darkness, how to be unmade, how quietly
we might lean into the uncertainty,

how generous the ground.

– ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER

#savasana #death #dying #lettinggo #surrender

The birth of a new age. #ageofaquarius #goddessen

The birth of a new age.

#ageofaquarius #goddessenergy #birthing #anewworld #spiritualawakening art by @yanasaintlevie

Wellness has become yet another obligation to fit

Wellness has become yet another obligation to fit into our schedule, Sophie Gilbert argues.⁠
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The more overwhelmed and exhausted we get, the more we seemingly owe it to ourselves to pursue “wellness.” The more burdens we accumulate—children, aging parents, student loans, mortgages, anxiety disorders, bad backs, extra pounds—the more we’re urged to be well by way of still more effort: throwing out our plastic containers, cutting out lectins, practicing mindfulness, learning about environmental toxins, doing the research. “We live lives that demand too much of us,” Rina Raphael writes in her new book, “The Gospel of Wellness.” “Wellness, which spans both real groundbreaking solutions and total bunk, is the direct response to genuine complaints.” Somewhere along the way, though, the thing that was supposed to help us heal ourselves became yet another obligation, Gilbert writes. “And the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic only exacerbated what was already happening—the slow, immensely lucrative poisoning of something supposed to be a cure.”⁠
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Wellness puts the onus on the consumer to make up for everything modern society can’t or won’t provide; it extends the illusion of control, Gilbert continues at the link in our bio. “Possibly, this is why the gambit of wellness is so seductive—it’s a familiar bargain with a familiarly vague payout. Do more so you can get by. Pay money for the promise of relief, if not release. We’re so inured to the idea that we can win by just working a little harder, when what we really need are radical structural overhauls that might make having children, demanding jobs, and elderly relatives less of an all-consuming load. But in the (likely) absence of mass societal change, it’s worth at least questioning anything that requires money and time and offers nothing specific in return. Maybe the combination of things we need to actually be and feel well—conventional medicine when we’re sick, alternative therapies when we’re exhausted or run down, fresh food, exercise, love, hope, someone to care for us as much as we care for others—is impossible to prescribe. But it’s oh-so-easy to exploit.”⁠

Repost from @theatlantic 🎯

It’s a great time to not expect anything. #DoLes

It’s a great time to not expect anything. #DoLess #BeCalm #Relax

@chaninicholas repost

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